Overview
extracting text from image using Tesseract ocr
image can be like
-screenshot
-printed page photo
-scanned image
-camera capture image
-window or any other application error message popup screenshot
etc (NOTE:input image should not blurry or noisy)
for recognize or read text you need to follow these steps
-first you should have knowledge of python if not then you need to first watch our video “Python install and helloworld program Tutorial” url : https://youtu.be/oTEf-fij-9g
-download and install tesseract Ocr Library
https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki
and add tesseract installation dir path into Environment variables } PATH } New
or use below line on start of your script
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r”C:\Program Files (x86)\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe”
then install 2 python libraries
pip install pytesseract
&
pip install pillow
*************Example Code (example.py)**************
from PIL import Image
import pytesseract
#uncomment below line if you dont want to set "Environment variables" path
#pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r"C:\Program Files (x86)\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe"
im = Image.open("sample1.jpg")
text = pytesseract.image_to_string(im, lang = 'eng')
print(text)
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thats all
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Summary
To using Tesseract ocr we can extract text from image like screenshot,printed page photo,scanned image,camera capture image,error message screenshot etc
